The River's Edge
The River's Edge is a 1957 film noir adventure, crime, and drama DeLuxe CinemaScope film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn and Debra Paget. The picture is based on the unpublished short story "The Higher Mountain" by Harold Jacob Smith. Location filming was done in Amecameca and Iztaccihuatl in Mexico. The supporting cast features Harry Carey, Jr. and Chubby Johnson.
Plot
Ben Cameron is a struggling New Mexico rancher who is devoted to his wife Meg. They married while she was on parole for a ten-year prison sentence. Meg has not adjusted to ranch life and she still loves her former partner in crime, Nardo Denning, who abandoned her after her arrest.
More details
| author | Harold Jacob Smith |
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| director | Allan Dwan |
| editor | James Leicester |
| genre | adventure crime drama |
| keywords | abandon attempt to escape barbed wire discover drive former partner infect injured married million in cash morning new mexico partner in crime police officer prison sentence return home struggle violate |
| musicBy | Louis Forbes |
| producer | Benedict E. Bogeaus |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | film noir |